THE NEW YORKER second season to the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where the ballet gala is held in August, the opera opening in May. Her absence in the Russian Bal- let festival here will be painfully felt by everyone except the Slavs. For those who were once little girls and boys, we announce that Singer's Midgets are playing here, perhaps with thejr little great-grandchildren, at the Empire Music Hall. These not too re- pulsive dwarfs attracted from the Pa- risian nobility its most exquisite scions; during the entr'acte, while beautiful duchesses elegantly smoked at the bar, their morbidly beautiful offspring, gloved, polyglot, polite, acknowledged, introductions and kissed princesses' hands, encouraged by their English governesses. In comparison not only the Midgets but even democracy seemed small. Y OUR correspondent wishes to apologize for having referred re- cently to the author of "Barnabooth" as being Paul V aléry instead of Valéry Larbaud. It must have been the spring. A few more warm days and we shall designate Washington Irving as the Father of hIS Country. Francis Carco, the low-life writer, whom to admire was until lately to be despised, has, in his "De Montmartre au Quartier Latin," restored artistic anecdotes of his generation to their proper place in the public eye. Too often great painters' quips are left un- recorded until the painters are unable to de fend themselves, being dead. For instance, Carco remarks that Picasso in the old days used to say: "When you make a landscape, the first thing necessary is that it resemble a plate." The second necessity-probably filling the plate-he does not mention. No more theoretical, but more his- torical in its effect on Cubism, is the incident of the negro portrait from the Dakar brought to Paris by Max J a- cob's brother-a portrait in which the gold coat buttons of the chief had been painted not on his jacket but in an aureole around his head. From this naiveté was made the discovery of what is now called, in painter's jargon, "the disassociation of ideas." Accord- ing to Carco, its result is upheld in icasso's advice: "If you paint a por- trait, you should put the legs at the side of the canvas," the sitter presuma- bly being supple as well as willing. T HE transfer of small galleries into the Saint Germain-des-Pres district has resul ted in a new commer- 87 . ._._......;:.:-.-:: : ..::-.:-4...;.-.>>'O...1 :'=-=-:::.... ., ''';':, ';:.=:. : .::::: ":::: .;:::: r :@ rl ._- . - : l l ,r" fjfi ? ... . :;:". : ::.:-:.." :-:.:. . ::: ":; r ! !í.,. ?:,"çy::: :.,.<:.::<:l:J ?', -. .. I f:J(!OI:A@ DE P A'l?!cS "-':-=:: . : t::..- 'T he :lX.!.w r or k Salon of the great Parts C oijfeur 1t, I ','." j.:::.::. . ..fþ '\; ."::' F :: ; .: i: . .... : :;:':i'. :;'.. ,:< ',{:t (:}\M.::;"' : Vi 1.(: .I! 'v , >;.. !!t " t> . , -::; i (;1: '''''' 1 \4 . :. :... . j@: ",the latest Saks- Fifth Avenue service to modern N e\V" Yorkers, , , pat- ronized by those women who set the pace of smart distinction (: f :""':.,....:. ;J :t":::: - .............. *.> i,; <C':. .;:: l Ji .i é":"@ ::-:; / fi.;j; : .... . ;; ::;-:."::;-::-: =*.:;::.:.:... .:...;.:;::;.' Antozne de Paris-Third Floor h ' ::" ' ',.:,.:." SAKS FIFTH AVENUE FORTY-NINTH to FIFTIETH STREET. NEW YORK HE KNOX ({Comfit" Illen's straw hat reverses the wartime slogan - it gives until ìt doesn't hurt. $6. Other Knox straws, $ 5 and up. KNOX THE HATTER Fifth Avenue at 40th Street Roosevelt Hotel (MadÙon at 45 th ) Z6I Broadway (Singer Bldg.) Waldoif-Astoria (Fifth Ave at 34 th ) The Paramount BuildiJlg (Broadz()ayat 44th) KNOX HATS, FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE. CAN BE FOUND AT: J. P. Carey é5 Co., Grand Central T'erminal John lfT. Ryan, Inc., Pennsylvania Termintll At all John David Stores